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"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
"You see, but you do not observe."
Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with trees up close but from outside, from the empty meadow, you see its true limits. Being free had nothing to do with chains or how wide your cage was.
If you want to see what this nation is all about, you have to ride the rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you’ll find the true face of America.
"Identity is not just about where you come from, but also about where you are going."
To really be a nerd, she’d decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.
To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it’s a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it.
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.
Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you can find anything.
Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
"Sometimes you have to lose yourself to find yourself."
"What you don't know can't hurt you, but it can kill you."
"The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you."
The ordinary is extraordinary if you look closely enough.
To be a good writer, you have to be a good reader first.
You can never run away from your own heart.
If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.